barack obama's republican challenger mitt romney. rebels in. turkey deploys forces to its border with the war torn country. munition. testing ground in central russia no report right now on any casualties though we have understood that evacuations have taken place. and breaking news for you this hour. break out in greece as thousands protest the

visit of the german chancellor. of more. demonstrators. worldwide live from moscow i'm rory sushi thanks for joining us today the white house republican hopeful mitt romney has called for a more aggressive foreign policy in the middle east which would include the. syrian rebels the democrats of. vision and consistency of details on this now and. mitt romney accused president obama of quote sitting on the sidelines end of quote and not being aggressive enough on syria mr romney suggested actively arming the rebels with weapons that can bring down aircraft on the wall hangs he said quote

the greater tragedy of it all is that we're missing a story opportunity to win new friends who share our values in the middle east end of quote but mitt romney's other remarks suggested that maybe he doesn't really care about whose hands the weapons would end up in because the objective that he stated was to defeat assad seeing it as a stepping stone to iran iran is sending arms to assad because they know his downfall would be a strategic defeat for them we should be working no less vigorously you are in an international partners to support the many syrians who would deliver that defeat to iran rather than sitting on the sidelines so basically mitt romney suggested taking advantage of the crisis in syria to feel the goal of defeating iran blatant but straightforward remark basically expressing the same opportunistic approach to foreign policy that the u.s. has had for many years while obama campaign called romney reckless and amateurish

when it comes to foreign policy so far the administration has stopped short of directly arming the rebels although washington is coordinating the efforts of their allies in the region that is saudi arabia qatar turkey which are providing weapons to the rebels one way or another but those allies are saying that they only provide smaller weapons that they would love to send heavy artillery but they don't have the green light from washington for that because reportedly the administration fears that the weapons might end up in the hands of terrorist experts say one of the reasons why the rebels are not settling down for a negotiated solution through dialogue is the signal that they get that sense that support is on the way that there will be an intervention and everybody now understands without a negotiated solution bloodshed will continue. well i mean time reports and. are saying that turkey is reinforcing its air base close to the border with syria after almost a week of returning fire a turkish news agency says at least twenty five additional fighter jets have been deployed in turkey and egypt are also holding weeklong joint naval drills and the

mediterranean are not very far from syria's shores bankura has warned it will not shy from war if provoked and nato which is so far shunned the conflict so that it's ready to defend its member nation but some reports suggest shells landing in turkey may be from weapons that ankara itself provided to syrian rebels this is violence is escalating across the country with bomb blasts on firefights in damascus the u.n. chief bank human has called on the syrian government to unilaterally cease fire political analyst downgrades for excess the rebels are desperate for foreign intervention. a lot on this beard oust and of course these guys own reasons for doing this on the one hand they're trying to give cover cover to the rebels to continue their fight they know that the rebels again defeated on the ground bombarding syria as a way to help the rebels and not lose too many of their positions but i think also

wants to please is kind of. nato nato masters in its bid to join the e.u. so it's been willing to do the bidding in europe and the u.s. britain france and the u.s. they may be helping hoping that they can somehow try and knowledge revote made into taking action as well and. the blitzkrieg is that she the only thing really that would enable the rebels we're now at this. you're watching r.t. now clashes have broken out in greece tear gas fired at protesters angry with the visit of merkel there are reports of police actually making preventative rests the german chancellor is seen as the power behind the policy bringing hardship and tough austerity to the greek people. has more from athens but you can see the riot police here are seeing protesters back off syntagma square clashes have already broken out between the two sides this is all happening as german chancellor

angela merkel is meeting with the prime minister there inside this cussing the future of the usa but out on the streets the people as you can see very same with their voices they don't want these measures to be in place any more austerity measures are also starts the motor has led to this crisis in anger here outside the parliament building and people have said that they simply had enough. the chance of visiting the country it is the year of recession as he has seen it here since the euro crisis started is the news and the agony has been building this entire sun you've got to remember as well that the rhetoric from germany the rhetoric from some of these big strong the rising stakes really changed dramatically at the beginning of all of this police was very much put out on its own with an isolated situation where the measures seem to be more of the punishment that help the

settling of those and they're also very few measures but just to say that this is the country is indeed a desperate spiral of austerity security operation this got underway the riot police it aligning of course the parliament that's a huge issue but today they've also got snipers on the receipts got the helicopter going a the heads i mean the police presence is notably more than usual and that's really caused a lot of anger added to that that the protesters were told they weren't allowed to to demonstrate peacefully as we said and as you can see they come out anyway at absolute anger as we said before what's been going on at the fact that she's visiting a lot of people asking why now why is this point chancellor merkel will be saying first chance today the very real effects of those are starting measures to be to chose in this country from the far. off his her father forty five from athens now a series of blasts rocked a military facility in central russia where tons of munitions for disposal exploded

the noise and plumes of smoke basically spout panic amongst the locals are all of us as more. officials in the region have said that there is no danger posed following this explosion took place at the munitions dump forty kilometers away from the city of of that statement saying that this explosion was due to conventional weapons exploding that there was no chemical or nuclear weapons involved in the in the blast and the whole of the local residents were at no risk whatsoever the military investigation has been started is also trivial case being opened into potential mishandle of weapons and ace the information coming out of the defense ministry though is telling us that all of their personnel are on engine and all accounted for it does seem though that we are hearing that those no casualties no injuries amongst the civilian population however they have received

quite a serious scare which is understandable when you think about the size and scale and sound of this explosion a huge booming blast ringing out gigantic plume of smoke and of course the shockwave that goes with these type of explosions all coming together to to leave them leave the local people out quite a bit little shaken now in the immediate aftermath of this explosion well we saw pretty much comic unveiling in four eyes online people posting on twitter and on other online sources that there had been military personnel injured and there are many military personnel remained unaccounted for the latest from the defense ministry is just simply not true that was hysteria following what was as i mentioned a very loud explosion now when it comes to incidents like this this isn't the first of its kind in russia in fact over the last three years there's been twenty such incidents involving military munitions dumps of this nature and in fact this particular facility saw two incidents

a place over the last few months which the true salted into people being injured as i say there at the moment the news coming from the defense ministry is no. personnel counted for. reporting. on the program a look at other people's choice giving the west a headache. for the fourth time as president. well. you can tell in ordinary russian. in the blink of an. apologist. those days siberians were different clothes different food. different animals. but what about. my journey began in the big city was

all shiny. scrapers and shopping malls much like any other prosperous russian. so i decided to. a small town just outside. dumplings came from here to dominate the russian cuisine but only in siberia. with cabbage and making sure you can have as a starter main dish. though it may draw. most people in siberia see nothing wrong with hunting. the side to participate.

when you look upon martin. as in the middle of a swamp only accessible. transport in the summer months in winter. it's inhabited by. a large muslim minority that migrated before the russians. this. is real siberia maybe not the stuff of tourist brochures but distinctive enough to show that after all these years is still not quite like anywhere else. welcome to the program this is arty life from moscow with me rory sushi here is

a hero in his homeland but portrayed as a bogey man by western governments and the election triumph chavez in venezuela for a remarkable fourth time means he'll continue to polarize opinion as president and saudis are looser caffein off now reports that the way he uses the nation's oil wealth will certainly ensure that he'll remain a thorn in the side of at least washington. six years up to the top that may be at odds with the liberation of the workers and what party that what we're. doing and. it's a victory that supporters say has implications far beyond this country's borders cowries chavez is the father of south america all the presidents who are friends among each other latin america understand the understand the significance of chavis for the world that's rising up from its knees for the world of equality for the world without it in many of the empire without

a gemini if you wish and that's precisely what makes many western governments nervous venezuela could be an example for other countries i mean here you have a country that is seeing the polarization of wealth which we see not just in one country not just in two countries but globally is completely toxic and must be addressed and that there must be a redistribution of wealth this is antithetical to what's been known as the washington consensus so in that sense the president chavez is as a threat as a threat that doesn't just hurt washington's influence but its coffers under chavez venezuela has refused to act as a market for u.s. based private investment and no longer can u.s. oil firms rely on the country as a stable source of cheap crude venezuela has the world's largest proven oil reserves chavez has promised to ramp up production and slash this country's dependence on u.s. markets by doubling exports to asia according to the president and that is why he

represents a threat to the west it's not about the. from the economic point of view we have the largest petroleum reserves in the world when the world runs out of oil only five countries which possess the majority of reserves will remain and you have those or russia iran saudi arabia iraq in venezuela or it's black gold can account for the vilification of charges in the west after all just a year after he took office in one thousand nine hundred nine chavez toward the middle east to lobby key opec members to drive or oil prices higher he also provided subsidized oil to quba bella bruce nicaragua and syria countries whose relations with the west aren't exactly ideal for critics that is well under chavez is a terrifying prospect. i think chavez is mostly criticized for his foreign policy first for breaking relations with traditional trade partners of venezuela such as colombia and the us and second for political alliances with countries which are

considered as non-democratic and even belligerent in their foreign policy such as cuba and even more so iran. here chavez says his world view is just one that the west is going to have to get used to. when it was said that an american model ruled the world and i wanted to remember the end of history by an american. venezuela rose against new liberalism twenty years ahead of the europe. which is happening now and it is will it did not need the i.m.f. we're not a world power yet. participate in the next six years play out one thing's for certain that. it's here to stay this is. from the heart of moscow and over it. right now. a swedish civil rights group finds a new way to figure out if your machine before letting you enter websites by asking

questions on human rights. the online for you a famous visit of a. door an embassy. maybe join tim for dinner but with a quarter in a bad romance perhaps find out more about the five hour meeting on our website. europe used to be a mecca for migrant workers from ukraine one in ten citizens heading west in search of a better life but as the european economy stumbles from crisis to crisis many ukrainians are returning home bringing their savings and new skills back with. reports on the turning of the tide. and goes to villages with empty houses and few people on the street a common sight for western ukraine and it's not the result of any disaster. almost every family in the west of ukraine has

a member working abroad ever since the collapse of the u.s.s.r. ukraine has been one of the main suppliers of cheap labor force into the european union as it stands over four million ukrainians are currently working in europe that's every tenth citizen of the country but this is changing yuri worked in spain for almost a decade before escaping the financial crisis and resettling back home at times he indulges in some gastronomical not stand here and make spanish style salami at home but yuri says there is no going back in europe. i made good use of the money i earned there i bought several stools and currently lease them i also bought a house twenty five kilometers from laval of if i stayed in spain i would have to work like a slave to earn something here i can enjoy life many of my friends who stayed in spain and now out of work and planning to come back to. and he's far from the only one the real estate market in western ukraine is seeing

a boom in property sales all thanks to those running away from the collapsing euro zone and i think a lot of people they may have thought of buying houses in the e.u. but you seen how the crisis playings those countries and a returning home of all real estate properties sold last year almost a quarter of the guys were returned migrants muesli by two to three room apartment with up to one thousand euros in the last two three months alone more than a thousand families booked flats here which makes around a hundred million euros worth of investment into property in just one of ukrainian regions the overall sum of european money ending up in ukrainian spoke its is even more astonishing last year ukraine was able to receive up to seven billion years dollars from the ukrainian menials currently working abroad and that's coming from the country's worst affected by the financial crisis spain italy and portugal where

many businesses have grown reliant on migrant ukrainian workers you might think their return home should benefit both sides but in reality economists believe this may spell trouble for ukraine amount of ram it answers we usually receive in front of me is going to go down. from seven billion i would expect that should be on the level of five billion tional supply of labor coming from e.u. countries to ukraine is needed to be supported and it's additional pressure for the ukrainian biochip which is quite difficult to do when you have a limited amount of resources but yury says even if the labor market goes into meltdown it would not be as bad as it could have been if you stayed in spain the money he brought back has made him completely self-sufficient and immune from being unwanted either at home or abroad. ski reporting from

ukraine. and in just a moment we'll get to the aussie wild update for now though china phobia strikes in america beijing locking horns with washington over a report that recommends chinese companies are excluded from entering the u.s. market of affairs they may be a cover for espionage and there are concerns that equipment made by telecom john who are away. could be used by the chinese government to spy and now both deny gathering sensitive information for the beijing government and insists the u.s. is simply afraid of competition. the new director of strategy for free press if this is really about national security. it's interesting to note that most computer equipment most telecommunications equipment is in fact made in china increasingly china is a player in the technology space and their ability to create cheap manufactured products should pose

a threat to business interests overseas business threat not so much a national security threat politics definitely comes into play here seen in both the romney and obama campaign an effort to get tough against china this could very well be an outgrowth of that but also of concern is the idea of the marketplace for cyber security when there are estimates that i've seen it but this is a multibillion dollar business so it's in the interest of a lot of these companies that provide cyber security services to inflate the fear it helps businesses that sell cyber security systems that sell systems that will allow us to protect against these alleged attacks that helps them make money so potential for this to have a blowback effect on the united states you look at american companies like cisco systems which is very invested in growing its business in china usually what happens when you have these kind of international controversies if the u.s. acts against a chinese company you could very well see the chinese government act against a u.s. company on its own turf. starting with paris into the antiwar dot there we go there

is where a thousand workers have scuffles with police during a protest against the company's planned cutbacks the police fired tear gas during a demonstration outside the paris or lawn of the french carmaker is closing a factory outside the capital within two years over the loss of eight thousand jobs has been severely hit by falling demand across europe. the international criminal court has started a two day public hearing to decide whether to try more market daffy's son in libya all the hague saif al islam gadhafi is accused of trying to violently quashed last year's protests against his father libya wants to prosecute him on home soil saif however insists that he would not receive a fair trial in libya and could ultimately face the death sentence. egypt's president mohamed morsi has pardoned all those arrested during the uprising last

year that toppled hosni mubarak over a thousand people were prosecuted for supporting the revolution which allowed morsi to take power this summer and the amnesty covers all those convicted and although still under investigation or on trial. for it in just a few moments here is natasha and all the latest business news that will be after a very short break. by horse. by tractor. by car from where the road ends. as a carpenter. as a stove setter. as a farmer. as an assistant. as a friend. as a relative delivering post and delivering good. news

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wealthy british scientists are. trying to cut back on. the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into a report on r g. twenty seven minutes past the hour you're watching business r.t. straight to our top story the dispute and the russian british oil joint venture

t.n. b.p. has an interest now the russian co-owners known as eight zero are considering selling their half of the company to either esther. partner in war on the open market this would only happen if b.p. sells its part to draw as deft something that local shareholders are not too happy about at the same time eight are is still willing to buy b.p.'s stake in the russian joint venture analysts say most likely he will end up in the hands of rosneft turning russia's state company into the world's biggest oil farm. is quite likely to change to exchange its share and to. for sure and all snuffed. with some cash. as changing hands in the process as well we're as a i will probably have to include completely all in or so i think. we're just transform itself into

a much larger company with with an important international shareholder which has the most advanced technologies and more importantly has the experience of applying some technology within russia the experience of transforming and management team. in to interpret the best management team in the world. and now the macro picture of the international monetary fund is the losing faith in the global economy it lowered its estimate for global growth and twenty thirteen to three point six percent from the previous three point nine percent the u.k. economy received the biggest downgrade the i.m.f. now expects it to shrink by point four percent this year the figures for russia didn't change that much it now stands at three point seven percent this year and three point eight four twenty thirteen. and a european markets are reacting to all this news by selling there was another downgrade on tuesday moody's slashed saya pres by three notches to negative last

month moscow promised to help the island which is now seeking up to twenty billion dollars in aid. here in russia equities are actually pretty upbeat in the last hour of trade managing to cover from monday's losses and on the currency markets the euro at the moment is losing value to the u.s. dollar at the removal it is actually recovering trading stronger to the currency basket and up next to r t we talked to sociologist craig calhoun about the lessons to be learned from the recent arab anger over an american film deemed insulting to the prophet mohammed. the us government has been taken by surprise by the recent wave of anti american boylan's one fold in muslim countries following its role in the arab revolutions washington was expecting more aggressive too does the pools from the.